Memorials Quotes

... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

It is not merely the likeness which is precious.

.. but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.

When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past--For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr.

Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin.

We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK.